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Ingo Schulze (2004)

Ingo Schulze (15 December 1962) is a Germanwriter born in Dresden in former East Germany. He studied classical
philology at the University of Jena for five years,
and, until the German reunification, was an
assistant director (dramatic arts advisor) at the State Theatre in
Altenburg 45 km south of
Leipzig for two years. After
oversleeping the events of the night of November 9 1989, Schultze started a
newspaper with friends. He was encouraged to write. Schultze spent
six months in St Petersburg which became the basis for
his debut collection of short stories 33 Moments of
Happiness (1995). He has lived in Berlin since the mid
1990s.

Schulze has won a number of awards for his novels and stories,
which have been translated into twenty languages, among them into
English by John E.
Woods.